Louise Bogan Quotes

One who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.

Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut-terin', or about them bein' off their nut.

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human.

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.